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UTUSN

(70,783 posts)
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:04 PM May 2018

Am sure it's only ME (as usual) but Adirondack chairs are a pain in the bejeesus neck

Maybe I'm OCD, maybe I --------- whatever. I hate these chairs.


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_chair

The Adirondack chair (in Canada, more commonly called a Muskoka chair) is a simple chair made of wood or man made materials, generally used outdoors. Originally made with 11 flat wooden boards, it features a straight back and seat and wide armrests. The advent of various man made materials have allowed for this style of chair to be made from polymers and other hard impact plastics.

The first Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee while vacationing in Westport, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains in 1903. Needing outdoor chairs for his summer home, he tested his early efforts on his family. After arriving at a final design for a "Westport plank chair", he offered it to a carpenter friend in Westport in need of a winter income, Harry Bunnell.[1] Bunnell saw the commercial potential of such an item being offered to Westport's summer residents, and apparently without asking Lee's permission filed for and received U.S. patent #794,777 in 1905.[2] Bunnell manufactured hemlock plank "Westport chairs" for the next twenty years, painted in green or medium dark brown, and individually signed by him.

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Am sure it's only ME (as usual) but Adirondack chairs are a pain in the bejeesus neck (Original Post) UTUSN May 2018 OP
I hate them too! csziggy May 2018 #1
Nailed UTUSN May 2018 #3
You are not alone. dixiegrrrrl May 2018 #2
Nailed UTUSN May 2018 #4
My grandmother had them on her porch when I was little csziggy May 2018 #5
We always added cushions 2naSalit May 2018 #6
Like, in the small of the back?!1 UTUSN May 2018 #7
Yes 2naSalit May 2018 #8
The mayor of the town where I grew up had a whole row of them out in front of his house Rhiannon12866 May 2018 #12
I grew up mostly 2naSalit May 2018 #13
I love them Phoenix61 May 2018 #9
I love them. Polly Hennessey May 2018 #10
I hate those chairs. dawg day May 2018 #11
I'm in the like them camp OriginalGeek May 2018 #14
I thought that was what you meant... Wounded Bear May 2018 #15
You are not alone ashling May 2018 #16
never sat in one rurallib May 2018 #17
Once you get *in* one, it's murder getting out, besides that UTUSN May 2018 #18

csziggy

(34,139 posts)
1. I hate them too!
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:14 PM
May 2018

For me with my short legs and top heavy torso, getting out of those thing is worse than trying to get out of a bucket. They are too long from knee to butt, worse than most other chairs, and with the backward slanting seat, they are almost impossible for me to get out of.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. You are not alone.
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:15 PM
May 2018

I first tried one when I was about 20. Hard as hell to get out of back then, impossible now. Way too low to the ground.

csziggy

(34,139 posts)
5. My grandmother had them on her porch when I was little
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:18 PM
May 2018

Hated them as a little kid and more so as I grew up. These days there is no way I would sit in one even if were the only choice!

2naSalit

(86,918 posts)
8. Yes
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:29 PM
May 2018

After putting long ones along the back and seat, then a smaller one for lumbar support. You just had to bring them in at night. We didn't have outdoor fabrics like we do now.

Seems they were like a sign of economic status to have them in your back yard or patio. My grandparents were well off so that's how I came to know those chairs, I guess.

Rhiannon12866

(206,694 posts)
12. The mayor of the town where I grew up had a whole row of them out in front of his house
Thu May 17, 2018, 03:23 AM
May 2018

He had a big family, so there was one for each of his children. And it's also quite near the Adirondacks.

2naSalit

(86,918 posts)
13. I grew up mostly
Thu May 17, 2018, 08:30 AM
May 2018

Along the eastern flank of the Adirondacks, closer to the shore and at the shore... we moved a lot.

Phoenix61

(17,025 posts)
9. I love them
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:31 PM
May 2018

I've got long legs and they have a nice long seat. They are great for relaxing/napping in but not much good for anything else.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
14. I'm in the like them camp
Thu May 17, 2018, 10:34 AM
May 2018

I don't love getting out of them but I love sitting in them so I guess that averages out to "like".

Have a couple on my front porch for the very rare occasion it's not too hot to sit and smoke a cigar and sip a scotch.

Wounded Bear

(58,773 posts)
15. I thought that was what you meant...
Thu May 17, 2018, 10:52 AM
May 2018


Absolutely hate them. Can't get up out of them any more. The knees just won't stand for it. Anything that low to the ground and I'd rather stand. That includes about 65% of couches out there, too.

rurallib

(62,478 posts)
17. never sat in one
Thu May 17, 2018, 09:23 PM
May 2018

took one look at them and immediately thought that those weren't for me.
So I will take your word for it.

UTUSN

(70,783 posts)
18. Once you get *in* one, it's murder getting out, besides that
Thu May 17, 2018, 10:04 PM
May 2018

*while* you're in it, you get opposite curvature to the natural curves of your spine.






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